Multidisciplinary Databases

These databases have scholarly journal articles and magazine articles in many different subject areas, including interdisciplinary subjects. JSTOR includes many older articles that are useful for researching the history of a topic.

The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports from business, medicine, social sciences and humanities, and science and technology

This database includes scholarly journals with full text articles focused on communication issues. It covers subjects such as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, Television/Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Written Communication, and Rhetoric.

This custom collection includes a mix of full text scholarly journals, trade magazines (American Journalism Review, St. Louis Journalism Review, etc...), newswires, and transcripts of television morning and news programs (Today show, Fox News, etc...) and even some local broadcast videos. It includes subjects such as journalism, advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.

Full text of the back issues (3 years or older) of over 1,200 core academic journals in many disciplines. Ideal for researching the background or history of issues, coverage starts with the first issue published, and continues, ending 3-5 years before the current year. An additional year of journals published is added annually. The Libraries own current paper issues of many titles in the collections.

LexisNexis Acvademic is an interdisciplinary, full-text database including newspapers, journals, wire services, company reports and SEC filings, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and law reviews.

American Journalism Review

Citing Articles

Remember to give credit to the original source when you use someone else's work or idea, whether you use a direct quote or paraphrase. Most style guides require some form of citation in the text of your paper as well as at the end in a bibliography or list of references.

Use RefWorksl keep track of the articles you find as you do your library research, and use it again as you write to format your entire paper, inserting quotations and creating a list of references at the end.

Selected Journals and Newspapers

Several key communication studies journals have moved entirely online, and a few others are scattered among different databases. Here are links to some core journals.

Articles from the Nieman foundation were available at the Niewman watchdog website from 2004 to August, 2012, but the site has been discontinued and articles are now available in at the Nieman Reports website or in the Academic Onefile database.

Newspaper Databases

NewsBank contains the electronic editions of record for The Detroit News (1999-date), The Lansing State Journal (1999-date), and over 100 other Michigan newspapers. Paid ads are excluded. The collections also include access to: many regional, national and international newspapers, well known news magazines, and a large database of obituaries and death notices.

A collection of over 1800 newspapers, newswires and news magazines from around the country and the world. Included are the Detroit Free Press (March 28, 2000-July 30, 2008), Times (London) 1985-date, and the Christian Science Monitor.